CD-ROM was a fine replacement for software distribution though. There was a 3,5" floppy compatible "SuperDisk" standard which could store up to 120Mb per disk.

CD-ROM was a fine replacement for software distribution though. There was a 3,5" floppy compatible "SuperDisk" standard which could store up to 120Mb per disk. But the Zip disk already had a big market share then. I remember using QIC-80 tapes for "software sharing" - since those drives were reasonably cheap and could be wired to an existing floppy disk controller.